2010-08-19
Bookreview of: Roland Brake and Ulrich Deller (eds): Community Development—A European Challenge
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Voluntas: international journal of voluntary and non-profit organizations , Volume 21 p. 631- 632
This edited volume contains more than 20 chapters of varying lengths on the topic of community development in various European countries (and one chapter from an American perspective). All contributions emerged from the EU-funded project ‘Community Care Approach: A Strategy for Social Inclusion’, running from around 2005 to 2008. The various chapters aim to deal with issues such as the relevance of community development approaches for the working practices of social work, how socio-economic projects are developed and implemented, assessing the experiences in the different countries and considering their applicability for other countries, and last but not least, the (negative) influence of politics on community work. The introductory chapter by the editors identifies the ‘tension between the official support [funding] on the one hand and the autonomous community development actions that are sometimes directed against the authorities on the other’ (Brake and Deller, 11) as running through the whole book.
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| doi.org/10.1007/s11266-010-9150-8, hdl.handle.net/1765/22297 | |
| ISS Staff Group 2: States, Societies and World Development | |
| Voluntas: international journal of voluntary and non-profit organizations | |
| Organisation | International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University (ISS) |
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Bergh, S. (2010). Bookreview of: Roland Brake and Ulrich Deller (eds): Community Development—A European Challenge. Voluntas: international journal of voluntary and non-profit organizations, 21, 631–632. doi:10.1007/s11266-010-9150-8 |
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